By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There
A Memoir
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Publisher Description
Tom Sizemore has been called many things. Brilliant. Brutal. Fiercely talented. Angry. Drug addicted. In reality, he’s all of them. He’s a survivor of the Detroit ghetto, the fifty-year-old father of twin boys, and a veteran of dozens of movies. He’s also now sober, after his addiction took his life just about as far down as any human being could go.
Through screen-stealing performances in the 1990s movies True Romance, Heat, and Natural Born Killers, Sizemore was so in demand that even when it was widely known that he had a drug problem, directors like Steven Spielberg were offering him roles and begging him to stay sober for them. Robert De Niro personally recruited him for the role of Michael
Cheritto in Heat after asking him to dinner and expressing his admiration. Jack Nicholson, Robert Downey, Jr., and Johnny Depp each went out of their way to befriend him. But this same man went from romancing Elizabeth Hurley and Juliette Lewis to being accused of domestic violence by the world’s most famous madam, and moved from a Beverly Hills mansion to a solitary-confinement cell at Chino State Prison and later a desolate, abandoned cabin in a town best known for being where Charles Manson hid Rosemary LaBianca’s wallet.
For years, Sizemore’s days were filled with overdoses, suicide attempts, and homelessness. The simple fact is that people don’t come back from where Tom Sizemore landed—yet miraculously, he did. By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There is a harrowing journey into the heart of addiction, told in riveting and often shocking detail—a terrifying cautionary tale for anyone who’s peered over the abyss of drug abuse. By turns gritty and heartbreaking, it is also one man’s look at a particular moment in entertainment history—a window into the drug-fueled spotlight that sent Robert Downey, Jr., to jail and killed River Phoenix, Heath Ledger, and Chris Farley and many others far before their time.
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“I CAN’T TELL YOU WHAT I’D GIVE TO BE THE GUY YOU DIDN’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT. . . .
I’VE DONE A LOT OF THINGS THAT WOULD MAKE THAT IMPOSSIBLE, AND I KNOW THAT TELLING YOU ALL ABOUT THEM WON’T HELP ME TO BECOME AMERICA’S FAVORITE SON.
BUT IT MAY HELP YOU TO UNDERSTAND HOW EVERYTHING HAPPENED THE WAY IT DID. . . .”
—TOM SIZEMORE
Customer Reviews
Tom Sizemore book...
Wonderful story of an amazing man... Tom writes the book as the humbled sober actor he has is. Great to hear a celebrity who is still in awe of his career and celebrity status. Yet knows his horrific addiction could have killed him and ruined everything... Yet he did make it out alive!
Great Story
loved this story. tom sizemore has had quite the life and is still standing! well written. was a fan before but now an even bigger one! great book.
highly reccommend!!
Great read, better story!
Not everyone gets out alive, and where he was, it probably was almost virtually impossible. Which was sad because of the talent he had. Luckily enough against all odds he had made it through, and even if he doesn't score major motion pictures, he does have his life. When I seen Sizemore on Celebrity Rehab, I had really no idea who he actually was, but iv seen some of the movies he was in. After seeing him on the show or anyone in that state for that matter the only thing you can do is route for them. It's always good to hear another success story after hitting rock bottom.